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- Position at QA:
- Pre School 4
- Three things about me as an educator:
- Fun
Caring
Reflective
- Website (blog or wiki):
- http://p4b.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/
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In support of increasing teacher awareness I have been developing a set of short software skills sheets that can be used for teacher learning and/or in classroom projects. They can be found at http://elearning.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/Software_...
Working with teachers on introducing 1:1 laptops. Yr 8 English task creating a poster using Art to create graphics. We decided that we shouldn't 'replace' with DTP software as task already had strong 21stC learning (creativity, HOTs) as well as cr...
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Yes, all of that equipment is in our classrooms from age 4 - age 6 (we don't have 3 year olds). Once students are in grade 1, they also have laptop carts; by grade 2 there are no more desktops and only laptops.
I do think teachers are happy with the SmartBoards - they use them to make lessons interactive and have students come up to the board to interact with teaching and learning material. To be honest, I'm not sure what else is out there in terms of "finger" boards, but the SmartBoards are working well for us.
I especially like the idea of being able to use the SmartBoard as a center in the classroom, with small groups of students interacting with the board in regular rotation.
I hope that helps! Please feel free to send more questions my way :)
I see Kim has posted a comment re hardware. I have made contact with Marai Knee as well in the USA and she will reply this week.
Julie
Our early childhood classrooms have:
A Smart Board
Fixed data projector
Surround sound speakers
4 iMacs (with headphones)
2 iBooks
A document camera
Usually they use the pod of desktops in their classrooms as a center, but we also have a "drop-in" lab if students need to have a full class lesson.
Does that help? If not, please send more questions my way!